Troubleshooting install issue

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Re: Troubleshooting install issue

Post by TrevorH » 2017/05/25 19:54:25

Clarify what exactly you are trying to do and how?
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
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Re: Troubleshooting install issue

Post by jnojr » 2017/05/25 20:15:09

CaViCcHi wrote:since you're having problems my a-bit-more-complex suggestion would be to manually edit your install.img or LiveOS.img (whichever of many squashed image), and enable sshd directly in there... youll find a /etc/ssh/sshd_config.anaconda to start from (ssh is open 100% passwordless root)
CAPITAL FREAKING IDEA!!!

I had no idea you could do this! FWIW, 'inst.sshd' is how this is done. I'm connected now! Thanks a bazzillionty!

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Re: Troubleshooting install issue

Post by CaViCcHi » 2017/05/25 20:23:08

yeah I figured there was a cmdline input in el7 but I switch so much between el6 and el7 that I don't even :P

so what was the issue? :D

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Re: Troubleshooting install issue

Post by jnojr » 2017/05/25 21:08:20

CaViCcHi wrote:yeah I figured there was a cmdline input in el7 but I switch so much between el6 and el7 that I don't even :P

so what was the issue? :D
Missing comps file, so anaconda didn't know about groups. I'm absolutely positive that before RHEL 7, I was able to copy all of the RPMs and create a repo and have no trouble. In this case, I copied '*-comps-Server.x86_64.xml' from my DVD to my repo, added it with 'createrepo -g', and all is well.

Thanks again for the terrific hint!

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